week's top stories on today's news egypt's opposition rejects the referendum on the new islamist based constitution as they call for yet more protests we've got the latest coming up with a live report. also rebels in syria come together under one military command meanwhile more global calls to prevent the government from using chemical weapons are increasingly seen as a pretext for intervention. and hamas vows to see palestinians liberated as the militant group marks twenty five years of action now while israel faces growing international pressure to stop building more settlements.

a lot of very warm welcome to futures joined us this is our t. midnight here in moscow and. in first egypt opposition says it will boycott the referendum on the new constitution saying that the document fails to represent the whole nation president morsy earlier ordered the military to maintain security until after saturday's vote on the disputed draft is viewed by many as discriminatory let's get more live well true do you think the opposition is boycott of the referendum will force morsy end of the day the changes mind or not. while the national salvation front which is the coalition of opposition forces how the press conference literally about an hour ago they expressed their complete rejection of the referendum of the constitution which they say enforces dictatorial tendencies and neglect key economic and social rights they've called for more protests on chewstick and this document and said that basically they will not stand down how this will be responded to by the president. yet to be seen in all of the

speeches by the president and all of the statements he's made he's firmly back the referendum on the streets speaking to the protesters behind me as you can see gathered in front of the presidential palace they believe that his initial confusion decoration which awarded him sweeping powers they said to me this evening was really to ensure that the constitution was drafted and put to referendum so the president's main aim really is they say to have this constitution put in place how he reacts to the to the boycott by the opposition forces i guess there are not is a huge boycott nationwide or whether it is not large enough to make an impact. security situation the other only were is. at the moment behind me the republican guards have had a tank stationed outside the presidential palace they've also built a twelve foot concrete barricades however the protesters on friday in quite extraordinary scenes century overwhelm the republican guards and pushed through in front of the presidential gates where they are now people on the streets of the

republican guard essentially stepped aside and so many leading many to believe the military perhaps not backing morsi to the same extent that he is saying they are he has called for them to secure the streets there are fears that violence will escalate this bloody scenes on wednesday when rival groups clashed here just at the presidential palace between pro brotherhood pro presidential supporters and protesters leaving at least seven at the national salvation front themselves in this press conference said this referendum will really just simply increase division in the country and possibly to further violence as these protest groups maintain their positions so definitely the military may well we may see more tanks on the streets here in egypt as this is the crisis deepens to the book situation as you say bring us up to date from cairo appreciate it. the u.s. has made no comment about egypt's draft constitution even though it's been criticised for undermining basic freedoms as opposed to a political analyst says washington secretly supporting the muslim brotherhood to

turn egypt into an islamic dictatorship. you have the brotherhood which has been supported by the state department in the obama administration as it has an analogous vehicle to create a if you will an islamic dictatorship in egypt where they're pushing a black agenda a secret agenda much much like. masonry organization for sequences where the triads are the the who's in japan and so forth they're pushing an agenda on the population and the population rightly source was a skunk and i think this is the coptic christian groups are threatened if the book brotherhood gets its constitution and imposing sharia law. other groups of muslims for example sufi places of worship are under attack in egypt and likely will be increasing your soul and this is probably one of the most major. here in intelligence projects of the of the last fifty years and since the us government

support of the muslim brotherhood to create islamic fascist regime you want to use that term across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. syria's rebels have joined forces in the one military command which they hope will unite diverse groups in the west and back struggle against president the sad this past week the international community again voiced fears that the syrian government could deploy chemical weapons to defeat opposition fighters something damascus hotly denies gutted you can assess is whether the chemical arsenal is a real threat or otherwise a pretext for intervention. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles will possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be

consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent a an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of the syrian government's alleged plans citing secret intelligence for fox news confirms that syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the ready the syrian government flatly denied the possibility saying it would not use such weapons against its people. we would not commit suicide we fear there's a conspiracy to provide a pretext for any subsequent interventions in syria by these countries they're doing creasing pressure on syria. the syrian government sure knows that if they use chemical weapons it would give nato and some of their arab neighbors who are itching to intervene in syria the green light to go ahead with their plans damascus itself says it would be suicidal for them to do so but with the fear and the hype

building up over the use of chemical weapons against civilians in syria it seems the u.s. might be preparing grounds to jump the gun on this one the jumping the gun scenario is not new for the u.s. almost ten years ago the bush administration confidently presented false evidence to invade iraq we have an descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails the invasion triggered a civil war that killed more than one hundred thousand innocent iraqis and years later all washington had to say about this was the president thought it was correct congress thought it was of course i regret that it turned out a lot of it was wrong in the run up to the iraq invasion the us media was instrumental in selling the case to the public the congress never had any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction all came from tony blair. bush right now that the u.s. has drawn a red line on syria it has made it clear it's ready to take action but how i'm not

going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of. credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we are certainly planning to. take action if that eventuality were to occur to american warships or already near the syrian coast with some. one thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's border with syria meaning hundreds more u.s. and european troops will be deployed to the frontier nato says deploying patriot missiles along syrian borders is a defensive step to prevent syria from attacking turkey i don't think there's any

requirement whatsoever for patriot batteries on the ground in turkey again the patriot missiles are designed to really protect primarily against incoming theater ballistic missiles or aircraft the syrians are not going to attack the turks the turks have the most powerful military establishment in the region the largest army in nato and intervention in syria will be as bad if not worse than what we experienced in iraq the pentagon said they would need seventy five thousand troops to secure syria's weapons of mass destruction the question on everyone's mind is are they seriously considering that kind of a massive intervention because that could mean another you rock coming soon and the invasion that could be followed by years of bloody civil war in washington i'm going to check on. lawrence wilkerson this is the chief of stuff the secretary of state colin powell he told us the u.s. could very well be preparing for a ground invasion why in the world would we put patriot batteries on the turkish border ostensibly to protect turkey with the largest army and the most powerful

army in the region indeed one of the most powerful in the world turkey needs no protection by us from that sort of thing and it would be utterly. utterly stupid for assad to attack turkey in that way so why are we doing these things that look like they aren't connected to reality unless reality is we're preparing the ground to intervene in syria i think also that it would be again a back door as a war into iran which is the as you well know the real threat that we've been putting out there for years now. and i think we're looking at syria and iran being a combination that we would then take on and you're talking about in my view a conflict that becomes regional and maybe even wider coming up british police are probing the death of a nurse later in the program we'll hear how the media hype could be behind her apparent suicide after she answered a prank call about the new pregnant duchess of cambridge also reporting two of the

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it's but unfortunately. now we're. going to be. easy to. control it's just that you're going to example you're going to be the only national motto fun. as a stoner. but the force it's real easy for the smoke you do so so it's a. german experience so. will you serious usual more of. a cell phone for people with. the hamas leadership has vowed to keep fighting until the israeli occupation is over there's hundreds of thousands of supporters turned up to celebrate the militant groups twenty fifth anniversary hamas is political leader khaled mashal who runs the organization from catarrh is knowing garzon for the first time in four decades in a speech labeled as extremist by israel the refused to recognize the jewish state's

legitimacy because of its occupation visit comes amid a turbulent time for the region israel's refused to end its settlement expansion which has been denounced by the international community middle east expert gun summerlike told us israel has even sad relationships now with one of its allies germany. we really made it very clear that we are totally against the continuing new settlements in the west bank and in jerusalem because this will definitely make the two state solution impossible it because if this building said going on the west bank will be split into the access to jerusalem will not be possible for the palestinians any more reaction by mr netanyahu and others were very strong and unusually undiplomatic you could say just before his visit to berlin condemning the stand of germany and the fact that the foreign minister lieberman with some. lame excuses did not come to billy and to meet his counterpart our foreign minister rest

of ella also shows that at the moment there are lots of tensions among politicians in germany and in israel we're talking of israel that exports tons of fruits and vegetables cosmetics and other goods to the e.u. every year but despite being labeled as made in israel some of those don't exactly originate from there indeed many are produced in settlements considered illegal under international law and now there are calls to ban these exports or at least in force much more accurate labeling artie's paid all over investigates for us. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims e.u.

imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in the legal segment your c farmers this land is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. i was told he. saw a circle where i was told they could it's more the state of israel told me time to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i got here there was nothing. and we made it. in denmark and the united kingdom goods coming from settlements in the west bank already has to be marked differently to denote that it's not from israel the

collective n.g.o.s want to see this implemented europe wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from. are you sure this comes from spain . ella is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even even the few think they get jordan. israel checkpoints keep them at the checkpoints for days in the sun. and then you can't say anymore those behind the report into trade between the settlements in europe say they aren't trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel itself we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. neagle israeli products which should be

bought by european citizens as much as the course the short and certain products which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not buy. our t. . checking out a few stories you might like to catch up on on our website as international role reversal going on with a warning of a nuclear aggression from us this time it's a random sounding the alarm against the united states over atomic tests in the rather with washington accused of double standards and snubbing the u.n. nuclear watchdog gave a talk with the dot com check these are two new wheels for say these benedict the sixteenth the approach taken delivery of his new high tech eco friendly wheels including a throne comfortable cruising among the crowds. british police service to getting the death of a nurse who apparently committed suicide after answering a prank call about the pregnant duchess of cambridge news of the nurses death added

fuel to the fire as media excitement over the role baby reached fever pitch there's artie's polyploid. all this taking place against a backdrop of intense media speculation and a real media circus the whole past week over news that kate middleton is pregnant we've seen discussions about whether or not kate could be having twins if kate has twins which of the babies potential babies would be the ones succeeding to the throne if it was if they were delivered by c. section it would be the physician potentially deciding it is the successor to the british war nicky we've seen bookmakers taking bets on what this baby might be called predictions that this will already be the most popular name in britain as soon as the name is announced and you know all this is taking place when there are other events taking place in the world still a crisis in syria protests in egypt it's all taking place against this backdrop and

a lot of people saying that this media coverage of kate's pregnancy has really been rather disproportionate especially with this tragic twist that has now ensued now i'm joined by course q. they a long time journalist he's been following the story of course a tragic wake up call to the grocery here. it certainly should be. a very very tragic circumstance under which are still under investigation the real issue is of course the media which blew this of out of proportion i believe the daily mail when a student story broke the daily mail devoted fourteen percent its first fourteen or thirteen pages of the newspaper one of the most read newspapers in the country to the royal baby we've just had the leveson inquiry a damning report about the state of the british media and now this you know is this more criticism for the british media in the way it's following these stories while there is other news taking place into internationally well again it should be but

it isn't because the media is trying to deflect attention away and is calling for the hanging of the two great radio deejays the media. it's not questioning the amount of quote coverage they are devoting to the room family and what consequences this may have been if the individual's life if we had a media which was more reasoned with this wouldn't happen if the suicide is actually proven to be related to what happened but they have it now that you and duchess of cambridge have said that they're deeply saddened by the tragedy of this the death of the royal now so what should have been a joyful pregnancy announcement has been you know some say because of the disproportionate media coverage turned into a very tragic news story. with news in brief this venezuelan president hugo chavez has spoken publicly for the first time of birth his successor after announcing he's suffering from cancer again the leaders to return to cuba for further treatment and

surgery in the coming days to the speech on state t.v. named vice president nicholas madeira as his replacement should anything happen to him and that news comes just two months after chavez was reelected in the tight vote north korea saying it may for spoke on its controversial rocket test shows you'll for later this month has given a reason for the delay but it's thought to be because of heavy snow around the launch site the secluded state insists it's only launching a satellite but the u.s. japan and south korea are among those who think it's really conducting a ballistic missile test tokyo is threatening to shoot down the rocket if it poses a threat. this crowd of demonstrators is norway's capital are protesting against the e.u. getting the nobel peace prize on the eve of the award ceremony there they accuse brussels of a lack of democracy and for maintaining a large military force while its people suffer through economic crisis among the main criticisms is that the nobel peace prize is supposed to be awarded to those who work towards disarmament. hundreds of thousands of americans say they want

to break away from washington residents across the land of signed internet petition saying they don't want to be part of the united states anymore but important the story. tonight. or tomorrow or tears after the former colonies won the right to determine its own best of the. test a perfecting of art here you know moves forward. four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael tuggle. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's

stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the debt this country has rolling disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's the lesson of history big empires always collapse on their own weight secession supporters like bernard for some say washington's weight of growing debt and loose wars government intrusion and a broken immigration system has become a bipartisan destructive force it's beyond reform you can't reform that federal government whether it's the republicans in charge or obama basically of the republicans are just as bad as far as we're concerned they're corrupt and are out of touch in southern former confederate states like north carolina culture and social issues play a big role for those like harold cruz who believes the u.s. is too big and thus destined to fail and the south. are

different country already and the united states. government we have different values different belief systems critics have dismissed secessionists as disgruntled voters angry over president obama's second term however in the two thousand and eight presidential election obama became the first democrat in more than thirty years to win north carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their own. the average american the things they believe in they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more the white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. or signatories at least seven states fit that category that we used to be on the interstate driving along at thirty five

miles an hour by ourselves with secession as a goal and now we're being passed on both sides in lanes by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or ten years ago and now we're mainstream. i mean stream movement to move apart marina port niall r.t. . very soon the u.s. is about to get a taste of it so that a city from moscow is preparing a list of banned american officials in response to travel on russians accused of breaching human rights we talk about that in a couple of minutes also to explaining what china and india's dispute of all and just said and see could backfire for both countries.

an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect a lot of americans fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying the n.y.p.d. hunted down the anonymous artist and arrested him for expressing himself having arrested him at his residence they charged him with fifty six counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession for having a deadly terrorist weapon and unloaded twenty two caliber pistol although being in jail won't be pleasant perhaps arzt as some actually in the end got what he wanted he proved to the world that big brother surveilled him and arrested him all for throwing.